For a long time people have been asking Game Freak to change up the starter trio instead of always doing Grass<Fire<Water. The most common suggestion on how to do it? Fighting<Psychic<Dark. Gen 6's starters in their final stages are Grass/Fighting < Fire/Psychic < Water/Dark.

The fact you have to hold the 3DS upside down to evolve Inkay may be a reference to the old April Fools joke of evolving Lickitung into Luigi by holding your Game Boy upside down. Since the fine folks at Nintendo themselves started the rumor, it's most likely intentional.

Bad Export for You: The games are officially available in China... but with no Chinese language option, only the other 7 main languages. The same happened in other countries, like Brazil and Portugal for example.

Blooper: In the Battle Chateau, Baroness Francine's Flabébé has the cry of a Floette.

Likewise, Yveltal has been dubbed Y-Bird, Y-vern/Yvern (from wyvern), Sky Bacon/Bacon Bird (due to the patterns and red coloring on its underbelly), and Y. It's also been referred to as Red Lugia or Bacon Lugia, due to its resemblance to the Silver mascot. And then Yveltal's shiny palette was released, the black is replaced with white. So literally, Bacon Bird.

"Mewthree" (harkening back to old Gen I rumors) for Mewtwo's Y Mega Evolution, before it was revealed as a forme rather than a new species. "Newtwo" is also common. Also, due to its similar appearance to Buu, it has been nicknamed Mewbuu and Mewjin Buu.

Ampharos' Mega Evolution has given it the names Amphabulous and Amphabio for its long, flowing hair.

Greninja is often nicknamed Jiraiya, often in reference to Naruto or Persona 4. Disco Ninja Frog is also an option due to the latter source material's famous Hiimdaisy parody. It's also frequently called "Smogonfrog", which is part of a nicknaming trend for Pokémon that are listed in OU on Smogon's tier system in Gen VI ("Smogonsword" for Aegislash, "Smogonbird" for Talonflame, etc.).

Nightwing is a very popular one for Fletchling/Fletchinder/Talonflame, because the line is based on robins and the first Robin (as in, "Batman and") later used "Nightwing" as his adult superhero alias.note Unfortunately, Robin the Boy Wonder was created in 1940, and his real name is Dick, which will not pass the text censor in the game.

Talonflame's also been referred to as "Bravest Bird" (due to the move Brave Bird being the most commonly utilized to abuse its Gale Wings ability).

Aside from the aforementioned Smogonsword, an Aegislash with Physical and Special attacks on the save moveset is referred to as "The Crumbler", based off of a post by a Smogon forums moderator named alexwolf.

Calem and Serena are sometimes given the full names of "Calem Xavier" and "Serena Yvonne," combining their official names and their acknowledged fan names (as seen below). The latter extends to Serena's anime incarnation.

Fandom Nod: Before their names were revealed, the protagonists Calem and Serena were given the names Xavier and Yvonne respectively, deriving from the French theme of the game and the names of their versions. The official X and Y website has this screenshot◊ in the section talking about the PSS, which features a male PC named Xavier and a female PC named Yvonne in a Wi-Fi battle.

New Eevee evolutions are always expected by the fans. Naturally, many expected a new one this generation, too.

Also expected was character customization (which is a common demand every generation), now X and Y will allow skin color, hair color, eye color and outfit changes.

Fletchling knowing Flame Charge hinted many to the fact that it would become a Fire-type when it evolved. And its evolution, Talonflame, is indeed a Fire-type.

Fans have speculated about a Ghost/Steel Animated Armor Pokemon for quite some time. Honedge is prettyclose. Aegislash, its final form, is a unique take on a ghost knight- the knight is his own sword.

Many also guessed Pancham would evolve into Fighting/Dark and lo-and-behold, they were right.

When Sylveon was revealed, some guessed that it would be a brand new type. They were right.

Many fans speculated that Mawile would gain Fairy-type, and they were right. Bonus points for being the first Fairy that can really be described as The Fair Folk (as in "A fairy that's evil and/or mischievous, not one that's bright, pretty, and kind-hearted"), which was a popular theory for the type.

The most commonly guessed weaknesses for Fairy were Poison and Steel, often going off a highly-accurate leak that claimed this. Both were revealed to be the Fairy-type's only weaknesses.

After the initial batch of Mega Evolutions was revealed, the Kanto starters were among the most common picks when guessing who would get one next. Sure enough, this was proven right.

People have been wondering and debating over why Charizard is not part Dragon-type, possibly since Generation II. Finally, their prayers have been answered with the reveal of Mega Charizard X, a Fire-Dragon type.

The same could be said about Ampharos, which was not a Dragon type despite its Japanese name being Denryuu ("thunder dragon") and knowing Outrage since Gen 4. Come Gen 6, we get Mega Ampharos, Electric/Dragon.

This DeviantArt user made a Fan Pokemon called "Noibat" which emphasized on its ears. Guess what Noivern's pre-evolution is?

Trevenant was speculated to be be a Ghost/Grass type... then again, given its appearance, this was an educated guess.

When Diantha was first revealed, many fans speculated that she was actually the Kalos Region Champion.

In the original reveal trailer people noticed a girl following Calem in the forest. There was debate whether it was an important NPC (probably a rival) or a character with a pre-made course, like a biker in previous titles, because they weren't exactly behind Calem and their design was deemed too generic. Come a few months later and that's one of your rivals, Shauna.

When promotional artwork of Sylveon was shown fighting Hydreigon, several estimated the possibility that Hydreigon would have a quadruple Fairy-type weakness. A few months later, the charts come out and confirm this due to Fairy being super-effective on both Dragon- and Dark-types.note Sylveon is one of the few things that essentially hard-counters Hydreigon, even those with Flash Cannon depending on the build.

Some fan prediction artworks of Mega Medicham featured four arms. The real one has manifested four additional ribbonlike arms with its psychic powers, in addition to the two it doesn't use.

Many fans speculated Diancie to be related to Carbink due to its Rock/Fairy typing and similar looks. When Diancie was officially revealed, it turned out to be a "sudden transformation" of Carbink.

Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire had been commonly predicted for remakes in the vein of FireRed/Leafgreen and HeartGold/SoulSilver ever since Gen V, and the many nods to Hoenn in X and Y were used by many fans as evidence for Gen VI remakes. At the start of May 2014, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire were officially revealed as the next Pokémon games, slated for a November release.

Schedule Slip: Pokémon Bank had to have its international release postponed after its release in Japan coincided with the massive influx of new Christmas users for both the 3DS and Wii U and implementation of new user profiles for old accounts, causing Nintendo's online services to screech to a halt.

Screwed by the Lawyers: X and Y were released early in Italy and Canada, which resulted in leaks that caused Nintendo to crack down hard on the leakers and the stores that broke street date on the games.

Tipping NPC's with the max value of 1,000 all the time increases the chance of Shiny Pokémon appearing. Allegedly.

Sundry rumored moves on Pokémon, such as Froakie getting Rapid Spin by egg.note It doesn't.

Given that new Eeveelutions have always released in pairs, and Nintendo has been known for not advertising Eeveelutions in the past (Glaceon and Leafeon weren't known until hackers saw their sprites in rips and thought they looked a lot like Eevee), there are rumors that there's a secret second Eeveelution in the title.

A supposed list of all Mega-Evolutions in the game was quickly called out as fake because it included Zangoose without also including Seviper.

There were also rumours on how the latest Pokemon evolves. For example, it was thought Honedge needs to defeat another Honedge to evolve (probably to gain a new sword), and Clauncher and Skrelp evolve by leveling up while knowing Crabhammer and Camouflage respectively.

What Could Have Been: A Mega Evolution for Flygon was intended to be released for these games, but Game Freak couldn't think up of a good design so they didn't go through with it.

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